Method of making wood or ratan ropes.



'No. 656,040. Patented Aug. [4, I900.

' I A. H. ORDWAY.

' METHOD OF MAKING WOOD OR BA-TAN BOPES.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1899;) ,,(No Model.)

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ALBERT H. ORDWAY," OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING wo-oo 0R RA'TAN RoPEsf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,040, dated August 14, 1900.

Original application filed June 26, 1899, serial Na. 721,861. Divided and this application filed December 18, 1899. Serial No. 740.791; (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. ORDWAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 15 Union avenue, South Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachtk 721,861,upon which Letters Patent No. 637,652

were issued and dated November 21, 1899.

The invention is carried out as follows, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the spirally-grooved metal rod used for twisting or shaping the wood or ratan strands or rods. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section on the line 2 2 shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents aside elevation of said spirally-grooved metal rod, showing the ratan or wooden rod or strand placed in the spiral groove thereon during the twisting or shaping operation; Fig. a represents a cross-section on the line 4 4 shown in Fig. 3. Fig.5 represents a side view of one of the twisted or shaped wood or ratan rods or strands after being shaped or twisted, and Fig. 6 represents a side elevation of a wood or ratan rope or coil comprised of two or'more of the twisted or shaped wood or ratan rods or strands.

Similar letters refer tosimilar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

For the purpose of twisting or shaping ratan or wooden rods or strands I prefer to make use of a cylindrical metal spindle A of any suitable length and thickness. The said metal spindle has on its peripherya spiral groove B, adapted to receive the wood or ratan rod or strand 0 that is to be shaped or twisted.

In carrying out the operation of shaping or .in Fig.5.

or ratan rod or strand 0 is allowed to remain in position on said spirally-grooved spindle until dry, when it is removed and caused to retainthe shaped or twisted shape, as shown Two or more of such twisted or shaped rods or strands are united or connected together in the form of a rope or spirallywound rod 0, as shown in Fig. 6, and this is accomplished simply by laying the previouslyshaped strands together in a spiral form, in

which position the rods or strands are inter twisted or intertwined-that is, each strand surrounds the others in the rope in close contact to form a solid rope, and thus they will be retained and, as it were, locked together by reason of the original twisting or shaping operation given to the individual rods or strands, as above set forth.

Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, Iwish to secure by Letters Patout and cla'imv 7 The herein described process of making wood or ratan ropes which consists in first individually twisting a series of wood or ratan rods about a suitable support while in a steamed or moist state, then positively confining the same upon the support in such twisted shape until dried, and finally bringing the twisted wood or ratan rods together in intertwined relation to form the rope, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT H. ORDWAY. 

